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the role of the artist is to load the gun.
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an essay nearly entitled, “the orange trees teach me art-making.” This essay is a continuation of my prolonged look at revolutionary healers in practice to become one— where healing also includes artistry. What is my role as an freedom-minded artist, this side of revolution? Check the link to donate to the universal basic income program for Ebola Survivors in Kenema, Sierra Leone below!
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Theses:
A (art-making) = B(world-making) = C (truth-telling)
(1) One of the greatest powers held in the human sovereign world is the power to create and destroy: to make, shape and reshape the world and what we know to be true. I call this world-making.
(2) We are currently at war and (I would argue) in the exposition of a new world.
(3) This world is still actively being made. What constitutes power in the hands of the masses? What methods of world-making are truly available to us?
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Jazz of the Episode (sampling):
Melancholia x Wynton Marsalis
For All We Know x Ahmad Jamal
Why, Buzzardman, Why? X Alabaster DePlume
Tezeta x Mulatu Astatke
My Odoh - African Lofi x Lofi Afrobeats
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